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Re: [PATCH v1 3/3] git-gui hooks for new config variable "diff.primer"

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Keith Cascio <keith@cs.ucla.edu>
Date
Jan 25, 2009, 18:58 UTC
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On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> Rather than storing the information about how to call "git diff" as 
> diff.primer, why don't you store that information in a config variable 
> gui.whiteSpaceMode and teach "git gui" to call "git diff" accordingly?
> 
> That would have the further advantage of not breaking other people's 
> setups...

This wasn't just for the GUI. Using Git for a project I imported from CVS, I wanted --ignore-space-at-eol to be in effect at all times on the command line. Of course, the "alias.dff" approach suggested yesterday by Teemu would work for that. But I got the feeling this is a more general need. I'll name my primary inspiration: ExamDiff (a Windows program). ExamDiff lets you specify a wide range of options that remain in effect over all invocations. Seems like something a lot of users would find natural. Please comment.

> Please submit git-gui patches without the git-gui prefix, as it makes it 
> harder on the maintainer of git-gui, Shawn (who you did not Cc: BTW).

Sorry Shawn, I should have Cc'd you. Please let me know if I can improve the git-gui code in any way.

                                        -- Keith
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Message 6 of 41 in “Introduce config variable "diff.primer"”
  1. 0/3 Introduce config variable "diff.primer"Keith Cascio, Jan 25, 2009
  2. 1/3 Introduce config variable "diff.primer"Keith Cascio, Jan 25, 2009
  3. 2/3 Test functionality of new config variable "diff.primer"Keith Cascio, Jan 25, 2009
  4. 3/3 git-gui hooks for new config variable "diff.primer"Keith Cascio, Jan 25, 2009
  5. Johannes SchindelinJan 25, 2009
  6. Keith CascioJan 25, 2009
  7. Johannes SchindelinJan 25, 2009
  8. Keith CascioJan 25, 2009
  9. Johannes SchindelinJan 25, 2009
  10. Keith CascioJan 25, 2009
  11. Jeff KingJan 25, 2009
  12. Keith CascioJan 25, 2009
  13. Jeff KingJan 25, 2009
  14. Junio C HamanoJan 25, 2009
  15. Junio C HamanoJan 26, 2009
  16. Keith CascioJan 26, 2009
  17. Jeff KingJan 26, 2009
  18. Junio C HamanoJan 26, 2009
  19. Keith CascioJan 26, 2009
  20. Jeff KingJan 26, 2009
  21. Junio C HamanoJan 26, 2009
  22. Jeff KingJan 26, 2009
  23. Johannes SchindelinJan 26, 2009
  24. Jeff KingJan 26, 2009
  25. backwards compatibility, was Re: [PATCH v1 1/3] Introduce config variable "diff.primer"Johannes Schindelin, Jan 26, 2009
  26. Jeff KingJan 26, 2009
  27. Johannes SchindelinJan 26, 2009
  28. Jeff KingJan 26, 2009
  29. Keith CascioJan 27, 2009
  30. Jay SoffianJan 26, 2009
  31. Jeff KingJan 26, 2009
  32. Jay SoffianJan 26, 2009
  33. Junio C HamanoJan 26, 2009
  34. Jay SoffianJan 26, 2009
  35. Jeff KingJan 26, 2009
  36. Junio C HamanoJan 26, 2009
  37. Junio C HamanoJan 25, 2009
  38. Keith CascioJan 25, 2009
  39. Jeff KingJan 25, 2009
  40. Keith CascioJan 27, 2009
  41. Jeff KingJan 27, 2009

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